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by loudmax 4y ago
Not all journalism is created equal. If you reject all journalism equally disinformative, you're left with nothing to believe but conspiracy theories. You really should understand how the different news outlets function, what their b
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by loudmax 4y ago
I get six to eight hours on my Thinkpad, running Arch Linux. This did not happen out of the box. I think I got like two hours of battery life before I began tuning parameters. As usual, the Arch wiki is an excellent resource even if you
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by loudmax 4y ago
Islam also has significant things to say on the issue. Hinduism and Buddhism likely have insights as well. Zoroastrianism may also have something to offer here. Maybe it's time to revive it.
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by loudmax 4y ago
Hang in there. Your kids will require less supervision as they grow older. But also the stakes are higher as the potential for emotional turmoil and property damage increase.
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by loudmax 4y ago
That's great. Keep doing this as much as you can. Not everyone has the luxury of being able to spend much time with their kids, so if you do, don't squander the opportunity. It's going to be harder to keep these boundaries
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by loudmax 4y ago
Limiting both is a good policy, but understanding the different games is also an important aspect here. When my kids were in elementary school I encouraged them to play Minecraft and I played with them. I didn't prevent them from pla
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by loudmax 4y ago
There's an argument to be made that water should be treated as public good, like air, rather than as private property. Water rights are an abstraction, much like copyrights. If the concept of owning rights to water is doing more econ
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by loudmax 4y ago
The examples given in the article assume for the sake of argument that the only software is enterprise software. So xml all around.
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by loudmax 4y ago
My favorite occurrence of "asshat" was by Metafilter moderator jessamin in 2006 justifying her decision to remove a comment. A bad argument made in good faith deserves a response, but trolling does not. Jessamin said that when s
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by loudmax 4y ago
The `find` command is extremely useful, but user-friendly, it is not. $ find -type f Data/ find: paths must precede expression: `Data/' find: possible unquoted pattern after predicate `-type'? sigh
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by loudmax 4y ago
> In general, birds have high intimidation stats but super low damage stats. These stats are Tier Zoo ratings, I presume? https://www.youtube.com/c/TierZoo/videos
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by loudmax 4y ago
While we're at it, let's imagine a world where BeOS succeeded on the desktop. People without the technical inclination to run open source would have a choice of multiple competing commercial desktop environments rather than the c
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by loudmax 4y ago
> public awareness of SpaceX petered out as it went from experimental to production SpaceX's Starship rocket is in very active development. If Starship flies and lands, it will fundamentally change humanity's relationship to s
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by loudmax 4y ago
The Goals section from the projects main page are pretty interesting: https://github.com/oriansj/stage0 This is a set of manually created hex programs in a Cthulhu Path to madness fashion. Which only have the goal
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by loudmax 4y ago
Theoretically possible, but we should want a lot more data to support that conclusion. There seems to be data that suggests that at least certain types of plastics have a deleterious effect on humans, and probably other animals as well. A
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by loudmax 4y ago
In the blog post, Brendan Gregg confirms that that is indeed his actual email address at Intel. That's actually an impressive recognition of Brendan's capabilities. I wonder how many engineers at Intel have a <firstname>@i
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by loudmax 4y ago
Very neat! This is similar in concept to the Celestia: https://celestia.space/ Celestia has been around for years so the spaceinbrowser site can't really compare in terms of features. But being able to run in a brows
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by loudmax 5y ago
The problem isn't that "allowlist" is preferred to "whitelist". The problem is that "whitelist" and "motherboard" are literally banned . Google is a private company so they can set whatever po
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by loudmax 5y ago
What's supposed to happen is that profitable companies start paying dividends to their shareholders. If you're getting dividends, then you don't mind if the value of your shares is staying flat or even dropping a little. Th
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by loudmax 5y ago
Obviously any such list is subjective, but I have are a few strong contenders for inclusion. Breaking Bad Narcos Battlestar Galactica And some weaker contenders: Game of Thrones, Stranger Things, Crash and Burn
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by loudmax 5y ago
I don't know how active the IRA is on HN, but there absolutely are state sponsored comments like those on the internet. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Internet_Research_Agency
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by loudmax 5y ago
It says the fingerprint reader works with workarounds, with "medium" level difficulty according to the icon. I don't see what incentive System76 has in making PopOS easy to use on a competitor's laptop, so the fact that
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by loudmax 5y ago
The thing is, we're already engaged in a massive ecological modification experiment that's bound to have unforeseen effects. It raises people's attention because this time it's done on purpose instead of by accident,
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by loudmax 5y ago
Pass is a wrapper script around git and gpg. You can get the functionality of `pass` by running git and gpg commands directly. Learning git itself is non-intuitive, but the gpg utilities take the learning curve to a whole other level. If
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by loudmax 5y ago
Absolutely this. Dragging CRT into a math curriculum is a bad idea. The state legislature passing laws to ban the practice is even worse. I know you're being facetious about interns, but issues today go so far beyond this. There&#x2
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by loudmax 5y ago
I feel like there's an analogy with fake news and deliberate disinformation campaigns. Universally blocking access to information is difficult or impossible, but it's relatively easy to generate lies and nonsense in such quantiti
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by loudmax 5y ago
Most people who need glasses at a young age are nearsighted. That is, their eyes can focus on near objects, but they need glasses to clearly see objects far away. Vision decline in old age is frequently associated with farsightedness. Old
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by loudmax 5y ago
The world should absolutely solve the micro plastics issue, but the world should absolutely not stop developing new plastics or finding new uses for plastics until that problem is solved. There should be more research into the impact of mic
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by loudmax 5y ago
I don't find the desk itself surprising, but I am surprised by the open office plan. I've found sharing an open space with more than two or three other people extremely distracting. I'm sure it depends a lot on the personal
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by loudmax 5y ago
Or maybe they looked closely at the sources claiming illegitimacy and found them to be complete BS.

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